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THEMATIC ROBOT CATEGORY RULES

MEVLÂNA'S LIFE

Hz. Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi, is known as Hz. Mevlana in

the East and known as Rumi in the West. At birth, his family named

him Muhammed, though he came to be nicknamed Celaleddin. As for

“Mevlana”, it connotes to “our master”, while “Rumi” relates to “the

land of Rum” or “Anatolia”, where he lived. In his lifetime, he was

also referred to as “Hudavendigar”, meaning “distinguished leader”,

whereas his present internationally renowned title “Mevlana” was

very seldom used. The name “Rumi” was added to the end, rather

later on..

Hz. Mevlana was born on September 30, 1207 in the city of Belh, Horasan, which at

the time was inhabited by Turkish tribes; (Belh, today, remains within the boundaries of

Afghanistan).

His mother Mümine was the daughter

of Rükneddin, the “emir” (sovereign ruler) of

Belh and his father, Bahaeddin Veled, was

“Sultanu-l ulema”(chief scholar). His mother

Mümine was the daughter of Rükneddin, the

“emir” (sovereign ruler) of Belh and his

father, Bahaeddin Veled, was “Sultanu-l

ulema”(chief scholar).

Their clash of opinion with Fahreddin-i Razi,

one of his contemporary philosophers, along

with the probability of a Mongol invasion urged him to desert his hometown accompanied by

his entire family. Their migration, via Baghdad, Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Malatya,

Erzincan, and Karaman, ended up, on May 3, 1228, in Konya upon the invitation of Alaeddin

Keykubad, the Seljuk Emperor.

Following his marriage to Gevher Banu in Karaman, Konya, Hz. Mevlana had two sons

whom he named Bahaeddin (Sultan Veled) and Alaeddin. Years later, during his time in

Konya, and after Gevher Banu passed away, Mevlana married Kerra Hatun by whom he had

two more children; another son, Muzafferreddin Emir Alim and a daughter Melike.

As Mevlana begins attending his father’s lessons at a very early age, he pursues the

divine truth and secrets. He acquires Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and common Greek as well as

Classical Greek. He studies the other religions along with Islam. From history to medicine,

he receives his initial education from his father and then from Seyyid Burhaneddin Tirmizi

and other top scholars of the time. Later on he himself, in turn, teaches hundreds of

students in Madrassahs (theological universities).

Meanwhile, Sems-i Tebrizi, not fulfilled by the ultimate spiritual rank he has attained,

is in search of another fellow acquaintance to match his own scholarly wisdom and to enjoy

his company. Sems and Hz. Mevlana, who had their first encounter in Damascus, meet again

in 1244, in Konya. These two God loving velis (guardians), focus intensely on divine

discussions and together they attain heavenly wisdom. With most of his time spent in

endless talks, poetry recitals, and whirling rituals with his spiritual soul mate, jealousy

becomes aroused among Mevlana’s students. Unjust rumours are spread against Sems-i

Tebrizi, who is offended and flees Konya for Damascus. Hz. Mevlana, in his deep grief,

secludes himself from all friends and writes many of his verses which we read in Divan-i

Kebir. The instigators of this unfavorable situation express remorse and a group led by

Mevlana’s son Sultan Veled goes to Damascus and brings back Sems-i Tebrizi. Nevertheless,

jealousy arises once again and Sems, this time, suddenly disappears altogether.

Hz. Mevlana enters a new stage in his life upon the disappearance of his close friend.

He first appoints Sheikh Selahaddin-i Zerkub, who passes away, then he appoints Chalabi

Hüsameddin, one of his own students, to teach on his behalf.

Mevlâna’s Testament to Humanity

“I suggest you;To fear God both secretly and explicitly.To eat less, sleep less, say

less,Obey the orders of God,Not to do harm,Follow your prayers and fasting,Abstain from

lust, Endure the pain and suffering caused by other people,Not to spend time with the

spendthrift and rabble,To be together with the generous and pious ones,The most auspicious

of people is the one who is beneficial to other people. And the most auspicious of sayings is

the short and concise one.Thanks to the one and only God. Salute to the company of unification “

Mevlana died at night on 17 December 1273 and was laid to rest beside his father in

Konya. That night is called “Şeb-i Arus” by dervishes.

Mevlana’s Major Works

The daily language of the time was Turkish, the

scientific language was Arabic, while Persian was the

language of literature. For this reason Hz Mevlana’s

books are all in Persian. They were all translated into

Turkish at a later time.

I. DÎVÂN-I KEBÎR: The gazels, delivered by him during various periods are collected

under the titles Divân-ı Kebîr or Dîvan-ı Şems-I Tebrîzî. (Since Mevlânâ considered himself

as “one” with Şems-I Tebrîzî, he used this as a pseudonym in his poems). In his poems,

various aruz meters are used and various subjects are approached

II. MESNEVİ: Mevlânâ’s greatest work is Mesnevî, which can be counted as one of

the most important masterpieces in Turco-Islamic art. In this piece, which consists of more

than 25000 couplets, the Islamic idea is presented through many tales and proverbs. Its

meter is ““fâilatün/ fâilatün/ fâilün” of aruz prosody, and the couplets are rhymed. The first

18 couplets were written down by Mevlânâ himself and the rest was inscribed by Çelebi

Hüsâmeddin [22].

III. FÎHİ MÂ FÎH: Fîhi-mâ-fîh is the written down talks of Mevlânâ in Persian

language and is written in prose. In this book, the verses of Quran are interpreted and

hadiths are explained. Thus, the mystic views about world, afterlife, deeds, and morality are

explained through instructive tales

IV. MEKTÛBÂT: Mektûbat is another work in prose by Mevlânâ. It is a collection of

145 letters written by him, most of which are addressed to Alêddin Keykûbat, other notables

of Seljuk State and his friends

V. MECÂLİS-İ SEB'A: Another work by Mevlânâ is Mecâlis-I Seb’a, which is an

Arabic-Persian prose composed of his seven sermons or advices. These sermons are

believed to have been given before his meeting Şems-i Tebrîzî in Konya mosques and that

they were written down by his son Sultan Veled and other scribes

Rumi's Seven Pieces of Advice

In generosity and helping others: be like the river

In compassion and grace: be like the sun.

In concealing others’ faults: be like the night.

In anger and fury: be like the dead.

In modesty and humility: be like the soil.

In tolerance: be like the ocean.

Either you appear as you are, or: be as you appear.

THEMATICROBOT CATEGORY RULES

“AHİCAN IS IN KONYA ,THE CITY OF TOLERANCE”

Thematic robot competition consists of a platform and a course.

Platform; It is the area that all games of this competition are played.

Course; It represents Great Seljuk Emire where Mevlana born and State of Anatolian

Seljuk where he lived.Course is formed by four stage tasks.

Two teams will race on the platform at the same time with two autonomous robots.

In this guide, autonomous robots are called robot.

Before racing, robots will be placed starting points of both course A and B and one

operator of each team will be ready for racing.

There are two boxes on conveyor belts at starting points of both course A and B. One

of them represents Mevlana’s book “Mesnevi” and the other represents the reed pencil using

art of Hat. Timing of both teams will start when the conveyor belts run and race starts.

Robots complete the following tasks respectively.

G.1. Second robot picks up the box from starting point and delivers it to first robot,

G.2. First robot arrives to location-1 with the box-1 and then barrier is removed

automatically,

G.3. First robot arrives to location-2 and then turn around itself at least one times like sema

show,

G.4. First robot passes through location-3 and stops at location-4. Here it calls second robot,

G.5. Second robot picks up the box-2 and then moves,

G.6. Second robot arrives location-2 and turns around itself at least one times as sema

show,

G.7. Second robot passes location-3 and put the box-2 out of course. Box-2 represents reed

pencil. Around of location-3 represents “Makta” which is explain at the following.

Makta: It is a kind of sharpener to sharpen the reed

pencil which is used for art of hat making. It is a plate that has

2-3cm width,15-20cm lenght and 2-3mm thickness made by

wooden, bone or ivory.

G.8. When second robot puts down box-2 to ground, first

robot moves with box-1 and enters Konya zone and then lights up one of Mevlana’s seven

advices.

It is assumed that game is over if team completes all tasks and lights up one of

Mevlana’s seven advices. Its chronometer will stop.

Team that gets best score in shortest time will go next race.

Digital Chronometer: It is located in competition area as seen from everywhere.

THEMATIC ROBOT COMPETITION CATEGORY

“AHİCAN IS IN KONYA , THE CITY OF TOLERANCE”

COMPETITION PLATFORM

Platform : It is covered by colorful printed foil.

Grid view of Platform.

COMPETITION COURSE

3D view of course A and course B

Course: There are two courses symetrical each other to able to race two teams at

the same time. Width of courses are 600mm. Grounds and walls are colored in white.

Both sides of course are made by white opaque foil with 150mm height. Black opaque

grounds which are in location-1,2,3 and 4 have same width and 150mm height from left and

right inner sides.

Dimensions of Task points

Before racing, robots will be placed starting points of both course A and B and one

operator of each team will be ready for racing. Timing of both teams will start at he same

time when the conveyor belts run and race starts.

Robots complete the following tasks with same order on the courses.

Tasks:

Task 1: Second robot picks up the box-1 from starting point and delivers it to first

robot,

There is a conveyor belt placed 150cm above the ground at right side of starting

point

Konveyör üzerine kutuların başlangıç yerleşimi

Box: It’s dimensions are 50x150x50mm and made by poplar tree. There will be RFID

tag on each box to register box’s data. Thus, information about the boxes such as which

locations they are can be collected by the system.

Box dimensions

Boxes will move by the run of conveyor belt and race starts.when box reach the end

of belt, conveyor will stop automatically and wait second robot to take box from belt

Starting point of course and stop position on converyor belt.

Positions of Boxes at the edge of conveyor belt.

Task 2: First robot moves to location-1 with the box-1. When she arrived to location-

1 , RFID reader reads RFID label on the box-1 and barrier wil be removed automatically.

Sample view for task 2

Task 3: First robot arrives to location-2 and then turn around itself at least one times

like sama ceremony,


Task 4: First robot passes through location-3 and stops at location-4. And then calls

second robot,


Task 5: Second robot picks up the box-2 and then moves from its location,


Task 6: Second robot arrives location-2 and turns around itself at least one times as

sama ceremony,


Task 7: Second robot passes location-3 and put the box-2 out of course,


Task 8: When second robot puts down the box-2 on ground, first robot moves with

box-1 and enters to Konya zone. At that time, system reads RFID tag of box-1 and lights up

one of Mevlana’s seven advices. After that chronometer will stop and robot finishes its game.

When other robot reaches to Konya zone with carrying box-1 and lights up Mevlana’s

advice , timing will stop and competition will be over.


Notice: Explanation from task-2 to task 8 is based on Course-B. Course-A is

symetrical of Course-B except process of loading boxes at starting points.

GENERAL RULES

1. Each team has two robots and two members. A Robot can not be used for more than

one team.

2. Any equipment or material used on robots must not have characteristics cause to injury

audience, competitors and damage to plartforms. Water, oil, inflammable liquids or gases

and dangeraous chemical materials are not allowed. Robot will be disqualified if it is noticed

that such a kind of materials mentioned above was used.

3. Maximum two team members can stand inside the competition area while the team

competing.

4. Total weights of robots should be maximum 25kg. (include all hardware and equipments

such as power suppy etc.)

5. Robots are autonomous and communicate each other.

6. It is not allowed that any intervention to robots by wired, wireless or infrared etc. until it

finishs the tasks.

6.Power suppies of robots should be maximum DC24 V.

7. Competitor has to be ready inside the competition area within 3 minutes when they are

invited to race. If the competitor requests extra time because of the reason about failures on

robots, extra time maximum 10 minutes will be given to competitor just one times. In this

case, next competitor will start to competition. This rule (extra 10 minutes) will be applied

only in first day racing but not in semi final, final competitions.

8. Team A and B will start racing at the same time.

9. Once the choronometer starts, it isn’t stopped until the end of race.

10. First robot will move after taking box-1 which represents “the book,Mesnevi” from

second robot at starting point. Competitor cannot interfere to robot or box.

11. First robot makes barrier opened after arrive location-1 by carrying box-1. If robot

arrives to barrier without box-1, barrier will not be open.

12. First robot makes Sama ceremony when arrives to location-2. Robot has to turn its

around at least one revolution to complete this task.

13. When first robot passes through location-3 and arrives location-4, it will stop

autonomously and send message about its’s arrive to second robot. When second robot gets

this message, it will take box-2 which represents reed pencil from conveyor belt and moves

to Konya zone.

14. Second robot makes Sama ceremony when arrives to location-2. Robot has to turn its

around at least one revolution to complete this task.

15. When second robot arrived to location-3 , it leaves box-2 out of course. It means that

reed pencil is placed to Makta for sharpening its point.

16. When second robot put the box down, it will send information to first robot. First robot

moves and enters to Konya zone and makes Mevlana’s advice lighted up.

17. When robot completes all task , timing will stop and game will be over.

18. Time: It is 10 minutes. In this time:

a. When robots cannot complete any task because of any reason, this task will be

skipped by request of competitor and acceptance of judge. Then, competitors will

continue to do next task. Time penalty (2 min) will be added to team’s total time for

each task which is failed.

19. If robot drops the box, competitor will take and place it again on the robot. After that

robot will continue racing.

20. In case of manual intervention to robots (except judge’s warning and other cases

explained above), time penalty (30sec.) and penalty score will be given to team. In this

case, it is assumed that it’s last task was not completed and this task will be repeated.

21. It is assumed that game is over if team completes all task and enters Konya zone and

lights up one of Mevlana’s seven advices.

22. If one of team completes all tasks and gets full score, its chronometer will be stopped

and judge will finish the game without waiting other robot’s tasks.

23. Team that gets best score in shortest time will go next. Ranking list will created by

regarding total scores and timing

24. There may be some differences in the competition rules between first day and second

day.

SCORING

TOTAL SCORES FOR TASKS: 280 Puan

SCORES:

Second robot takes box-1 20 score

Second robot gives box-1 to first robot 20 score

First robot unblocks the barrier 30 score

First robot makes Sama ceremony at location-2 30 score

First robot arrives to location-3 10 score

First robot arrives to location-4 10 score

First robot stops at black area 20 score

Second robot takes box-2 20 score

Second robot arrives location-1 10 score

Second robot makes Sama ceremony at location-2 30 score

Second robot leaves box-2 out of course at location-3 30 score

First robot enters Konya zone from location-4 20 score

First robot lights up one of Mevlana’s seven advices 30 score

PENALTIES

In each case that the box are dropped -10 score

When first robot crash the barrier at location-1 -10 score

When first robot doesn’t stop at location-4 and enters Konya zone -30 score

Manually intervention -30 score

When second robot doesn’t stop at location-2 and crash to first robot -10 score

When first robot can’t stop at Konya zone and pass to other course-20 puan

No finish in 10 minutes (for each additional minute) -20 score

(when stopwatch shows up 12:00:00, judge terminates the competition and declares the

time and total marks of team.)

DISQUALIFICATION REASONS

1. If any team tries to control robots with wireless , infrared etc. ,

2. If the teams act behaviours which don’t respect to the spirit of fair play before, after or

during the comptetition

3. If the teams don’t obey the rules and instructions of judges.

4.If the robots damage the platforms during the competition. (by using any kinds of

liquits/gases which are inflammable or any dangerous chemical substances, etc. )

Thematic contest will continue during 2 days. Elimination competition on

first day , Semi final and Final cometitions on second day.

FIRST DAY RULES

Two teams will race at the same time and winner will go next tour. First day, racing

will continue until quarter finals. In case of not enough team reach quarter finals, teams

from top of ranking list will be invited to quarter finals. If there are odd number of teams ,

team that not has opponent will go directly to next tour.

* Team’s score and time are declared within 5 minutes.

Priorities;

Teams will be sorted according to following priorities.

Teams which finished both routes and all tasks completely (with full score: 280)

Total scores.

Total finish time in case of draw.

Lighter one in total weight, if their scores are still equal.

SECOND DAY RULES (QUARTER FINAL, SEMI FINAL AND FINAL)

Second day, matching teams that reached quarter final will be done as top team and

bottom team according to order of their score/timing ranks. Racing order will be created by

draw lot.

* Team’s score and time are declared within 5 minutes.

Priorities;

Teams will be sorted according to following priorities.

Teams which finished both routes and all tasks completely (with full score: 280)

Total scores.

Total finish time in case of draw.

Lighter one in total weight, if their scores are still equal.

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